I Thirst: A Lenten Journey from Desert to Garden
I Thirst: A Lenten Journey from Desert to Garden is a resource for Lent groups that is grounded in...
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Stardust Wednesday Ritual
Ash Wednesday’s dust dates, as do we all, to the stars. This ritual celebrates our stardust...
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Spiral Dynamics, mastering values, leadership, and change
A phenomenal exploration of the great integral dynamic forces and systems underlying...
Read MoreReimagining the Cosmos, Interview with Brian Green
This is an interview on On Being with Krista Tippett.
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What is Dark Matter?
Neil deGrasse Tyson is always a joy to behold. Here he explains the complete ignorance we have as to the identity of what is normally called Dark Matter. Admitting ignorance is both necessary and humbling.
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Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth
Paleoclimatologist Curt Stager vividly describes how the decisions we make about the environment...
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Why do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who...
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Non-Scientists Talking Science, The Risk
This article was written specifically for the Deep Time Journey Network by Michael Lemonick, a science writer for TIME magazine, a Senior Writer, Climate Central, and a lecturer at Princeton University. The Deep Time Journey Network knowingly rides the precarious knife edge between science and the humanities. We feel that this conversation is of great […]
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Big History: Between Nothing and Everything. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2014.
Written by three big historians with long experience of teaching big history, this is the first college level textbook on big history. It updates the big history narrative, incorporates the core idea of Thresholds of Increasing Complexity, adds further readings and resources, and also chapter questions and many illustrations, maps and diagrams. Nine of the […]
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Cynthia Stokes Brown, Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present. 2nd ed. New York: New Press. 2012. 1st ed, 2007.
This short book (250 pages) tells big history for a general audience in clear, non-academic language, yet well documented. The general theme is of the human history portion is humans in their environment, connected by food.
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